Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Home of Representatives have overwhelmingly handed Japanese Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ)’s laws to restrict how knowledge brokers share American’s delicate info overseas.
The Defending Individuals’ Information from Overseas Adversaries Act (H.R. 7520), which the 2 lawmakers led by way of the Home Power and Commerce Committee, handed by a unanimous vote of 414-0. After the vote, Rodgers and Pallone launched the next assertion:
“At this time’s overwhelming vote sends a transparent message that we’ll not enable our adversaries to undermine American nationwide safety and particular person privateness by buying individuals’s personally identifiable delicate info from knowledge brokers. H.R. 7520 is one other key step in the direction of strengthening knowledge protections and safeguarding our nation from international adversaries.
“The laws builds on our efforts within the Home final week to cross H.R. 7521—with overwhelming and bipartisan help—and serves as an essential complement to extra complete nationwide knowledge privateness laws, which we stay dedicated to working collectively on. We’re inspired by as we speak’s robust vote, which ought to assist construct momentum to get this essential bipartisan laws, in addition to extra complete privateness laws, signed into regulation this Congress.”
Final evening, Rodgers spoke on the Home flooring in help of her laws. You’ll be able to watch her
